My favorite Django is Anthony Steffen’s Django from Django the Bastard. I love my mysterious poncho man a little too much. He also happens to be my comfort character
My least favorite Django out of the ones I’ve seen is actually a fake Django. He was played by Brett Halsey in Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die and his name is actually Bill Kiowa but it’s very obvious that he’s supposed to be a Django character. Even his wife was killed!
He’s my least favorite Django because he’s literally dead inside. No emotions, nothing. He looks like he’s suffering throughout the film and like he doesn’t want to be there. It kinda ruins the film
Interesting thread @I_love_Cat_Stevens, I think this will get a lot of responses.
While I’m not too sure Bill Kiowa was meant to be a Django rip-off, I can understand why you don’t care for the character in how he’s portrayed. I give the character the benefit of the doubt myself cause the man he thought was his best friend betrayed him, raped and killed his wife right in front of him, and framed him for armed robbery; if a man doesn’t come out of that some kind of bitter, it’s amazing.
Franco Nero and Anthony Steffen are my goto Django’s and my least favorites are the ones in the Fidani films.
I definitely agree with you here. Bill has been through hell and it’s obvious he carries heavy traumas and many negative emotions inside. I guess his tragic backstory is mirrored in the way he’s portrayed in the film, but I still don’t care about him that much as a character. He’s just somehow so forgettable
My favourite has to be Steffen in Django the Bastard, followed closely by the original Django, Franco Nero… Can’t say I have a least favourite Django though
I don’t think I have a favorite, but I will say - Steffen is very good in “Django the Bastard”.
Steffen is not a good actor, his acting is monotone and unexpressive, a cardboard cut out of Steffen would have the same level of emotion, and this is in a genre that strongly relied on actors with expressive faces to portray strong stoic silent characters effectively… Django the bastard was an exception where Steffen actually made the film better, his lack of expression actually worked in his favor, he does a very good job at playing this mysterious ghost-like version of Django precisely because of how unexpressive and monotone his acting is. It makes him seem less real and less human. A great film that does not get the recognition it deserves.
I prefer Terrence Hill¨s Django because I think Franco Nero is slightly “overrated” as an charismatic actor, and I generally rate Django, Prepare A Coffin even higher (8/10) than the original Django (7/10). The stiff voice of Django especially in the beginning of the latter movie though shouldn’t be blamed on Nero in the English speaking version on my DVD but still it might have exaggerated my impression of a bit stiff Nero performance, and clearly I like him best in Django of the few SWs with him that I have watched.
Regarding my least favorite, my lowest rated SW of the around 130 that I have watched until the end is One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana! (3/10). Funny, I thought that the dark character played by Jack Betts looked more like a Sartana character in my imagination but was supposed to be Django so he might be my least favorite as Django. I just started rewatching (at least as long as I endure it) this one on Youtube and might theoretically change my verdict with some probability estimated to possibly be over 0 %.
Edit : I just gave up the second time watching after 34 minutes but Django so far had only appeared a minute or so - maybe good for him
Generally Tomas Milian’s so called Django character in Django Kill If You Live Shoot (9/10) is my overall favorite Django related SW and also my favorite Django character, but it should be out of competition since he has not any significant resemblance of the original character Django (which might also be valid for the character played by Betts)…
The only problem, and slight niggle, that I have with Terence, is that when he rides into town, he looks as if a broom stick is sticking up his rectum. He keeps furtively glancing around to see if anyone has noticed…
The iconic picture that, for me, sums up the original 1966 ‘Django’ This image would make a great poster…a blood-stained revolver, crosses, and the hero/anti-hero left alone as always.
Least favourite Django? The interminable knock-offs that had nothing to do with the original character… Some of the cash-ins didn’t need to add Ringo to the title, because the films were competent enough to stand on their own merits…an example being ‘Find a Place to Die’…which I love. (see below).
